The United States of America

Hear, oh United States of America, Yahweh your God, Yahweh is One!

We as a nation were created to showcase the glory of Yahweh, and recently we have fallen short of the fullness of what we could be. Let us repent! For there is more than what we are walking in.

Yahweh calls us forth to greater unity. The enemy has sown seeds of division and separation based on special interests and common ground (or lack thereof). He has caused discontent in the hearts of Americans who do not feel that their voices are being heard or their needs are being met because they know they are unsatisfied with their lives.

Many Christians have fallen victim to this ploy, and I repent as well for the fear that I held during the election that Christianity would fall under greater attack than it already was. It is not acceptable to submit to fear, for fear brings division.

People of various races, religions, and abilities have different perspectives on the world. The enemy has lied to them, saying that if everyone could see from their perspective then their needs would be met and they would no longer feel unfulfilled. Yet, the only thing that can fulfill anyone is Yahweh. The enemy has also placed fear into them, telling them that if people don't see from their perspective, they will be killed or persecuted or degraded. Yet, the only protection and provision is Yahweh.

Yahweh is a God of Unity, but He expresses Himself in diverse ways. He does not want men to see from women's perspectives. He wants men and women to be different, to have different perspectives and roles so that He can be glorified twice as much as He could be if there were only one gender.

Yahweh does not want there to be one race. He wanted people of various flavors and cultures and colors to work together in unity, using their different perspectives for His glory. He did not want their differences to cause division, but to cause mutual edification!

Yet, none of this is possible without Yahweh and without faith. Unity can only come by faith, but if man is too afraid to unite together because they have believed the lies of the enemy that are fear-based and based in lack of identity, then none of what Yahweh dreamed for our nation will be possible.

America has always been a melting pot, a place where diverse groups of people could be made into one nation. One of our national mottoes is E Pluribus Unum: Out of Many, One. Yet, in recent years, it has been more like "Out of many, many." People have clung fiercely to the things they think identify them and make them separate from others. They have decided that they must fight for these things, growing angry and militant in the fear that these false identities will be removed.

Yet, if we lay down what we think we are, Yahweh will give us something better.

So let us move on, America! Black, white, Hispanic, Asian... we are not the color of our skin or the culture into which we were born or raised. We are not the language that we speak or the expression of values that we held dear. We are not our gender, occupation, or how the world treats us. We are Yahweh's and only what He made us.

Once we know who we are, we can accept others, but not until then. Once we know who we are and have united with Yahweh, we can unite with others, but not until then.

So let us take the first step and discover ourselves in Yahweh that we can again become The United States of America: One nation under God, and truly with liberty and justice for all.

It is the only way liberty and justice for all is ever going to be possible.